Smarty Template Array Question.

[Brian]

I have an application that uses an array of values as a "lookup" table and
smarty as a template engine.

$lookup['stuff']['a'] = "label";
$lookup['stuff']['b'] = "label2";
$lookup['other']['a'] = "label";
$lookup['other']['b'] = "label2";

In my application I can easily use this array to find the values I need.

$data[ $lookup['other']['b'] ];

I want to assign my lookup value to the template, and have smarty perform
the matching, but for the life of me I can't get a smarty variable to modify
itself.

{$data.$lookup.other.b} doesn't work
{$data.$lookup[other][b]} also doesn't work.

I'd also like to use these in functions like

{html_checkboxes name="id" options=$data.$lookup.other.b
selected=$data.selected }

I've searched smarty forums, but looking for an instance of "array" in the
forums it too general, and I can't find anything that points to how to do
this.

Any help is appreciated.

[Daniel Tryba]

Brian <ewvea3dgc7001 .@. sneakemail.com> wrote:

$lookup['stuff']['a'] = "label";
$lookup['stuff']['b'] = "label2";
$lookup['other']['a'] = "label";
$lookup['other']['b'] = "label2";

I want to assign my lookup value to the template, and have smarty perform
the matching, but for the life of me I can't get a smarty variable to modify
itself.

{$data.$lookup.other.b} doesn't work

AFAIK it's not possible, it's ambiguous. You'll have to assign
$lookup.other.b to a variable in the template.

BTW IMHO it's bad practice to do these kind of "complicated" things in a
template, you should do these things in php before handling a variable
to smarty, in smarty you shouldn't have to do more than foreach the data
and print it.

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Daniel Tryba

[Brian]

In the event that someone searches for this and gets the same response I
got, here is the solution I came up with.

{assign var=temp value=$item.metalabel}
{$labels.data.$temp}

While a bit "wordy", it works.
"Brian" <ewvea3dgc7001 .@. sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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I have an application that uses an array of values as a "lookup" table and
smarty as a template engine.

$lookup['stuff']['a'] = "label";
$lookup['stuff']['b'] = "label2";
$lookup['other']['a'] = "label";
$lookup['other']['b'] = "label2";

In my application I can easily use this array to find the values I need.

$data[ $lookup['other']['b'] ];

I want to assign my lookup value to the template, and have smarty perform
the matching, but for the life of me I can't get a smarty variable to modify itself.

{$data.$lookup.other.b} doesn't work
{$data.$lookup[other][b]} also doesn't work.

I'd also like to use these in functions like

{html_checkboxes name="id" options=$data.$lookup.other.b
selected=$data.selected }

I've searched smarty forums, but looking for an instance of "array" in the
forums it too general, and I can't find anything that points to how to do
this.

Any help is appreciated.